As long as you're dancing, you can break the rules.

Like Magellan, let us find our islands To die in, far from home, from anywhere Familiar. Let us risk the wildest places, Lest we go down in comfort, and despair.

Every word is a messenger. Some have wings; some are filled with fire; some are filled with death.

Almost anything is too much. I am trying in my poems to have the reader be the experiencer. I do not want to be there. It is not even a walk we take together.

One thing I do know is that poetry, to be understood, must be clear.

A mind that is lively and inquiring, compassionate, curious, angry, full of music, full of feeling, is a mind full of possible poetry.

Attention is the beginning of devotion.